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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2025The SACD DSD track offers a new listening experience. Whether or not it鈥檚 a better experience is in the ear of the listener. Comparing back and forth to the original 2003 CD, the bass on the DSD track has been lowered slightly. This allows the listener to hear other details with more clarity behind the booming subs..
This is of particular benefit to Megs drums most noticeably; for example the snares on the snare drum hits and the sound travelling across the cymbals on Seven Nation Army.
The original CD is much louder and the bass really booms on it. Elephant is a classic rock n鈥 roll album that revels in distortion and a muddy dirty sound. The SACD allows the clarity for you to get the volume higher to hear more detail. In my estimate you get an extra 10% in clarity from the SACD, but it鈥檚 not a night and day difference over what you heard before.
I believe what you hear on the 2003 release is how the album is intended to be heard and the one that sounds better at a crowded party. The 2023 release is really just a different way to hear a familiar album.
If Elephant is one of your favourites, the SACD DSD master is an essential pick up.
SACD masters have the potential to make you hear something in a completely new way. For example, Dire Straits Brothers in Arms 5.1 release. DS BiA took an album I saw no significance in previously, but listening to the DSD made me appreciative of what was there because the remastering is just that excellent. BiA is a night and day difference compared to its original release that heightens the listening experience of that album. Elephant is not in that category on SACD because it was already perfect. The release is worthwhile if you are already a fan and want to hear it in a different way, or if you have never heard it uncompressed before and this is your first purchase. The SACD also contains the CD release on the redbook layer of the disc that will play in a traditional cd player.
